The niece of a colleague of mine is an alternate on the womens gymnastics team. Considering how shitty the regulars did in the trials, she'll probably get a chance to do something when the other 5 finish falling on their asses.

I think tomorrow I'll schedule to watch the swimming and maybe some fencing. All these times are cockamamie, I'm assuming they'll have replays later in the day because I sure as shit am NOT waking up at 5:30 to watch anything. I assume neither are the athletes, those can't be local London times, why the hell would they have events that time of morning? Who the hell would go watch?

glen a richter wrote:I think tomorrow I'll schedule to watch the swimming and maybe some fencing. All these times are cockamamie, I'm assuming they'll have replays later in the day because I sure as shit am NOT waking up at 5:30 to watch anything.

I believe there are certain channels on the NBC network where you can view events live and others where the events will be shown on tape delay.

Just got back from London. I just want to say I'm damn proud of my sister and St. Louis area native Jenny Bindon for her play in the 2012 games for New Zealand and especially proud of her getting up after taking a knee to the face from Alex Morgan. If you didn't see it:

I've taken a liking to water polo during these games though I'm not really sure why they're constantly blowing the whistle and what does and doesn't constitute fouls. I mean, they're tangling with the other team underwater, how can attempting to drown someone in order to maintain possession not count as an exclusion?

Nice job by Serbia turning it on at the end of the game against heavy underdog Australia. Their tremendous defense, goaltending and spectacular scoring prowess at the end of that game reminded me a lot of the Andy Murray era Blues. Or wait, maybe not.

Damn, water polo is exciting, I wish there was a place to watch it around here.

Crap, I didn't realize there was an Olympics thread going or I would have joined in. My wife and I were both talking this morning how we missed not being able to turn on the Olympics throughout the day. After the birth of my son, I had a week off so we got to watch a lot of the Games, which I've never got to do before. A lot of fun. Even better that the US destroyed the medal count.